The Budapest Symphony Orchestra is an internationally acclaimed ensemble founded by the members of the best orchestras of Hungary in 1992. The BPSO has recorded numerous film music, classical and pop albums and often performs at the most important concert venues of the Hungarian music scene, including Müpa, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and BMC. The ensemble's unique musicality and versatility make it stand out from others.

Some of greatest composers from the past – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonín Dvořak and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, will share the program with composers of our day from Australia, Canada and the United States in a program created to charm and delight.

Mozart’s Overture to Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario) is as vivacious a concert opener as one is ever to hear, full of zest and high spirits. The great Czech composer, Antonín Dvořak, is beautifully represented in two short works for violoncello and orchestra – Waldesruhe (Silent Woods), and the Rondo in G minor performed by the Viennese soloist, Wolfgang Panhofer. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Symphony No. 5 (Reformation), while not as frequently performed as his Scottish and Italian Symphonies, is a work full of Baroque and Romantic fervour that is a deeply spiritual. From our own times, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra will perform the Canadian John Robertson’s tone poem, Cyrano, that follows that character’s tale of love by proxy in somewhat in the same way as Richard Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche portrays Till’s practical joking. The Austrian-American Gerald Braden’s Ballad of Wounded Knee depicts the tragic massacre of 300 native American (Lakota) Indians on 29 December 1890 by soldiers of the United States Army. Finally, Australian Mark McEncroe’s Fanfare Suite No. 2 treats musically the human emotions of honesty, sincerity & integrity from his larger work entitled A Celebration of Human Emotions.

Programme:

W.A. Mozart: Overture to Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)

John Robertson: Cyrano

Antonín Dvořak: Waldesruhe (Silent Woods) for Cello and Orchestra

Gerald Braden: Ballad of Wounded Knee

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Antonín Dvořak: Rondo in G minor for Cello and Orchestra

Mark McEncroe: Fanfare Suite No. 2

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Symphony No. 5 (Reformation)

With:

Budapest Symphony Orchestra

Wolfgang PANHOFER - violoncello

Conductor: László KOVÁCS (due to illness of Anthony ARMORE)

Organizers: Budapest Symphony Orchestra with Blue Danube Musikimpresario/Vienna